A Pretty Rockin' Story in Photos.

Happenings

 I have been super bad at blogging lately. Bad Kristen. I'm only taking two classes this summer too so the 'being busy with school' excuse it out the window. I'm not quite sure why I've been slacking except that I just haven't been in the mood for it. Matt was shocked and said I'd finally gotten "blogged" out! I'm hoping it will pass since I actually do have a lot of fun photos to post from when Ben and Chantal were in town and the two little cousins, Jett and Sawyer, got to play. But until then, here are some other random ones from the past month. 

Bryson came over to babysit a few weeks ago so Matt and I could go watch the UFC game with friends. I didn't want to freak Bry out before we left, but had to tell him Sawyer had been having night terrors just in case it were to happen that night. -That could potentially be a whole other post, but basically what happens is he'll wake up screaming, but not really be awake. His eyes are open and he's hysterically crying and thrashing about, but he doesn't recognize us, technically is still asleep and won't wake up no matter how hard we try. It's weird, it's creepy, and it's makes me want to cry every time because Matt just has to hold him while he flails about so that he doesn't get hurt-Anyway, thankfully he did not have one the night that Bryson babysat. (brow wipe)

I had Bry take a picture of us right before we left. It's not very often we get one of just the two of us!

In other news, I got my very own computer! We got a new laptop for me to use for school. The one I had been using was Matt's dinosaur of a Mac from 2003 and it was as slow as a sleeping sloth (say that ten times fast). I very nearly pulled all my hair out doing my on-line classes on that thing, hence buying the new laptop since Matt didn't want me to go bald. 

 Sawyer has been a silly goose lately. I had to throw this photo in since what kid doesn't go the shoe phase?

He still refuses to talk, yet seems to fully understand why we are saying. He nods yes or no to anything we ask so at least there is some sort of communication going on. Some of his latest favorites are:

~ watching Thomas the train, which is exactly what he is doing in the photo below.

~playing with all the measuring cups, spoons, and straws and hiding them very strategically so we can't find them for weeks.

~jumping from the couch to ottoman and purposefully falling off both and laughing.

~Coloring with his markers. Love that photo of him with the 'stache. He totally drew it himself. Believe me? ;)

~Climbing on my back like a monkey to hitch a ride down or up the stairs so he doesn't have to climb them. Lazy or Ingenius?

~Riding Moxie like she's a pony which I don't think she's very enthusiastic about. Funny that now he thinks he's a cowboy, because remember this disastrous photo shoot we attempted back when he was a wee one? If not, I've attached the video at the bottom. I had the brilliant idea to dress him up as a cowboy and take a photo of him sitting atop him trusty steed Moxie. Mind you, Sawyer was only a few weeks old at the time. Make sure your sound is up so you can hear the great song Matt had picked out for the video. And for the record, I do feel bad for subjecting my poor little baby to all that craziness. Sort of. 

**If it seemed like an absolute disaster...it WAS.**

Little Boy Blue

Boy in highchair with markers, happily coloring on paper. 

Until mom turns her back. 

Then paper is thrown onto floor, and the markers double as lollipops. 

Yum. Tastes like blueberry I'm sure. 

RC Willey

Memorial day Matt and I got up early so we could then go wait in line at RC Willey to hopefully get our hands on one of their door buster deals: a black counter height kitchen table. I had been looking on Craigslist for quite a while for a dining room table and chairs and hadn't found anything that was worth the money. Is it just me, or do people price their stuff ridiculously high on there? Sorry, but no I would not like to pay five hundred dollars for your country style kitchen table purchased twenty years ago. Anyway, the table at RC Willey wasn't spectacular by any means, but the price definitely was and we had come to the conclusion that we needed one pronto. Eating at the kitchen counter three meals a day while standing was getting old. Getting in line early paid off as we got numero deux out of the ten tables available. It was delivered a few days later and here is our dining room now with a proper table and chairs. I'm trying to convince Matt that a lantern would look really cool in place of the chandelier. Not like an outdoor one, but a cool looking indoor one. I've seen it in a Pottery Barn catalog so it can't be that crazy of an idea.

Another perk to braving the herd of people at RC Willey was that we got a $25 off coupon to use that day. We thought about hawking it to someone else since we weren't planning on getting anything besides the table (which we discovered in the coupon's super sneaky fine print that it wouldn't work towards) until we found this black mirror on sale that was normally priced at $125. With it's sale price and our coupon we got the mirror for $20 and the birds for free! 

So for now our living room looks like this. Or the T.V. room as I call it. For as long as I can remember I can never figure out which room is the living room and which is the family room. I can't even tell you how many times my mom has explained it to me, it just never sticks. Let me see if I have it right, the family room is the TV room and the living room is the formal room, right? Well that doesn't make sense because the living room should be the one you live in and use more! Hence, why I just stick with calling it the TV room. So much easier. 

GaGa

Hello, hello baby you called?

I can't hear a thing

I have got no service

In the club, you see, see

Wha-Wha-What did you say?

Oh, you're breaking up on me

Sorry, I cannot hear you

I'm kinda busy.

K-kinda busy. 

K-kinda busy. 

Sorry, I've slacked on blogging, we're kinda busy :)